Huh. Had an “interesting” experience here (just make it to the end of this story, trust me). Friend and I arrived on a Saturday. Okay crowd but not busy, and plenty of servers walking around. We seat ourselves since there was no host/hostess and wait 15 minutes or so. We tell the bartender how long we’ve been waiting, she acts shocked and says someone will be right over. 10 minutes later our server comes and asks us for our order. We tell her we want drinks first and to relax for a little with them since we’ve been waiting so long. So we order two beers (one each) and two waters. 7 minutes later (I had started timing everything a while ago just to see) she comes by with the water but we tell her we’re leaving. She squeals “but your drinks are ready!” There are no drinks in sight. Keep in mind this was two beers only. We see her go down a few tables and I figure she’s helping them before getting our drinks. She and another waitress are huddled over this table like early man discovering fire, and I see the other waitress pick up a beer and immediately know what’s about to happen.

The two of them march toward us and the server who wasn’t ours is holding the glass by the rim (nasty) and proudly proclaims “here’s your drink.” I told her that we had ordered two beers, not one, and I certainly wasn’t drinking some thing that she had taken off of somebody else’s table and then held by the rim. She exclaimed in protest that “no one had drank from it!” I repeated that we had ordered two beers, not one, and that I wasn’t drinking anything that had been sitting on somebody else’s table for who knows how long. I then informed our waitress that we were leaving and to have a good evening. As we were walking out she yelled very loudly behind us in a snarky sing song tone, “have a good night!”

Call me crazy, but I think waiting half an hour for somebody to present you with a beer from somebody else’s table, that somebody not even being the person who is supposed to be your server, makes for a bad experience and that your alleged server probably shouldn’t be snotty with people after that kind of experience. Needless to say, we just walked out and went somewhere else and had a nice time.

Go here if you like to wait when it’s not busy and be handed drinks and food from other peoples tables.